Potato prices are soaring even though farmers this year grew a record 1.04 crore tonnes, cutting the buying power of consumers, especially fixed and low-income people already battered by sustained high inflation.
The question, however, still lingers like a chronic sinus infection: why are we not increasing food production at home and being less dependent on imports?
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